It has been a long time since we blogged. We were very busy this week. We did an activity where we wrote about the gift we would be and we had to use a abstract noun. Then, we made our Santa and colored it. Here is a picture of some Santas we did.

We also wrote a pen pal letter to our friends in Kenya. Next, we drew a picture of what we wrote about. We had the Book Fair this week as well. On Wednesday we did our browser for what books we wanted at the book fair. The theme this year was Egypt. On Thursday we bought the books we wanted to buy. Garrett bought a book called Big Nate, and  Logan bought a book called Clementine for Christmas. There were many books to choose from. Finally, you could bring in toys for kids that do not have as much as us, which is called the Toy Drive. St. Johns has already filled many Santa bags filled with toys and games. This is just some of the fun activities we did this week.

By Logan and Garrett

Welcome to the weekly blog by Rebecca and Brooke.  This week the 5th grade had the chance to sign up for Battle of the Books.  The Battle of the Books is a program for kids to read.  Then in April, Mrs. Grubb's team will get to compete with other Howard County elementary schools.  We also had our first Book Club on Thursday night.  The book we read was Hatchet.  In book club we discussed Brian (the main character) and how he changed throughout the book.  This week the 5th grade also got to start their Mix N' Match Me.  We are learning about similes and metaphors in class.  In the Mix N' Match Me, each student got to choose 9 adjective to descrie themselves.  Then they had to turn those adjective into similes and metaphors.  For example, one adjective could be athletic and the simile could be "I am as athletic as a gazelle running bounding across a field".

Lastly, we learned what our Christmas play theme is.  We will give you a hint...it is the anniversary of a classic Christmas movie.  The 5th grade definitely had a phenomenal week!

Mrs. Benzing's class did a lot this week.  One thing we did was a special science thing.  What we did was we each had an ingredient, and we had to squirt it into a bowl.  After that we had to try to put that ingerdient back in the bottle.  Mrs. Vance was trying to teach us when we say mean statements, we can apoligize but we can't take it back.  

We had a meeting called the Road to Middle School where we talked to the a few sixth graders about what kind of schedule they had, what sports did their school have, and how long did the teachers give them to get to class.  It will help fifth grade transition nicely to middle school.  The third graders, fourth graders, and fifth graders could have come.  It was optional though. 

 Lastly, we did a newscast.  The newscast was a video filming where Mrs. Benzing's class talked about events.  Some of the events we talked were The road to middle school, the Pope traveling, hurricane Joaquin, and illegal fishing.  So that is some ot the events that happened this week.  By: Morgan Hicks and Rebecca Haskey

In Mrs. Benzing's class we had an all school chapel with our book buddies to celebrate St.John's Parish day School 50th anniversary.  We had to make a birthday card for St. John's anniversary and we put a poem inside the card and had everybody sign it.  This week we met our book buddies from Ms. Pontier's class,  made friendship neckalaces with them, and read books to them.

We started our Newscast project which has current events, weather reporter, breaking news , and interviewing.  We are also finishing up our Spanish project where you look up a famous Hispanic person and research that person and then present the project on PowerPoint.

Back to School Night

Check out the Back to School Night Presentation below!

Welcome to Mrs. Benzings class blog.  We have done a lot of fun activites this week.
The first fun thing we did was on Tuesday when we did Mystery Skype. Our mystery location was a school  in Nebraska!

Another fun thing that happened this week was we started reading groups.  The red is reading The Cay and the yellow is reading Call It Courage. In writing this week we made our Plain Polly which is a plain stick fgure and we create a new polished one. It's like adding the details to a paragraph.

There was also Back To School Night (Only parents attended). At Back to school night they had to guess thier child's silhouette. On Friday we started Sacred Writing Time which we will do almost every Friday. What it we do is Mrs. Benzing puts something on the Elmo and it has a list of what day it is and two other fun facts and we get a choice to choose which question we want to anwser.
That was all the fun things we have done this week!! 😃

Welcome! to Mrs Benzing's class blog. This week we started our lemonade war project, which will start with our first sale on September 29, 2015 at 11:30. The project included flyers, posters, themes, and and picking our treats.

We also started the St. John's Writers College.  The writer's college is a program that earns you different degrees through the year in writing. Another 5th grade club is the Young Einsteins, which is for  students who are interested in learning more about the world. We also played saving fred. Here are the rules: you can only touch Fred with paper clips.

This week in science we heard that we are going to create an independent science project. They are due  at the end of the year, so we will have plenty of time. Last week we wrote our ideas of our own countries, and we got to put in all of our amazing ideas. We also got to make a flag or map of our made-up countries.

On Thursday, we started a new writing prompt about "How would the world be different if there was no electricity?" Another thing that happened this week was that Mr. Andy came in and taught us how to use charcoal art. Throughout the class, we drew a sphere and a cube, and they both had dark shadows and highlights.

We had an exuberant week.  On monday we had off for M.L.K day. On Tuesday we had two tests:  one in social studies and one in Spanish. On Wednesday boys had PE and it snowed heavily but we didn't get off.  Also we started ERB training by writing essays and learning to manage our time.

 On thursday we had science and art.  On friday we had music and strings. Also we had genius hour. That was our week. thanks for reading.

This week was a very interesting week! In writing, we started to learn about Diamante poems. Diamante poems are shaped like diamonds. We also started to learn about personification poems. Personification poems are poems that you write about an inanimate object. This week we finished our wikispaces on our social studies study guide. Our test is on January 20, 2015 and please remember to study. Ms.Grubbs class has a test next week. Be prepared!This week was a very fun-filled and educational week!